skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree.

Last time I got hit with an interview question like that, my answer ultimately had to be "block the merge and counsel the person who wrote this about performance." I'm still not sure if that's the answer they were looking for (this was for a staff engineer position), but I'd stand by it 100% of the time.
I could see TikTokers doing it.
Why do you think they haven't adjusted again? Is it possible it is actually (loosely) correlated to job performance?

I interviewed at Google and all the questions were practical, challenging, and not found on leetcode.

I've seen all kinds of interviews in my twenty years of experience, and while all types can be done poorly, (including DS&A ones), having some live coding is one of the best signals you can get in a short amount of time.

I've been blown away by a candidate while they're talking about their experience, but then asking them to code something small, they utterly bomb.

Conversely, I've seen shy, humble candidates struggle to articulate their skills, and then crush harder and harder coding challenges.
Do you have kids?

"Give your kids books they'd be interested in" is kind of classic meaningless advice. Like, sure, of course that's what you want to do -- except, if you have a kid who doesn't have an existing strong reading habit, how do you find books they'd be interested in? Like, that's the goal! You can't just assume the solution.

I have a nine-year-old daughter who definitely does read, but isn't a voracious reader, and I've tried a lot of different things to up the amount of time she spends reading. It's tricky. One of the things that I've found is she's more willing to invest in graphic novels than prose novels, but I don't feel like at this point graphic novels deepen her literacy.
That publication doesn't seem to mention the "lagged" part, or maybe I missed it. I am aware of https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/attacking-gos-lagged-... which also refers to it as a lagged Fibonacci generator.

Rob Pike and I exchanged mail with Don Mitchell (who wrote the original C version of the Go 1 generator) a few months back to see how he would describe the algorithm, and he said "As I recall Jim and I implemented Marsaglia's LFSR-like generator."

I think both descriptions (lagged Fibonacci and LFSR-like) are accurate in different ways, so either would be fine, but for the post I decided to use the original author's description.
I think the size of the vibrations is important here. The paper mentions acoustic cavitation, which I believe would only really occur at small frequencies like the ones stated in the paper, not large shakes that you or I would do.
there's also the issue where the stuff i put on github is for hacky throwaway stuff and not representative of my professional standards for a "real" job. it'd be like interviewing a chef and judging their abilities based off of what they made themselves for dinner last night rather than what they cook in a restaurant
The age of solar + storage is here. It’s the least expensive option to add power to the grid today, and prices are still dropping while efficiencies are increasing.
It’s a history of this behavior that has convinced me that Apple’s claims of being a privacy advocate is nothing but lip service.
The pencil for the Remarkable tablet has this feature. I found that it was a great way to ease into digital note taking. Matching a real-world feature felt very natural.
Right, in Europe there are no unions.
Same here. My secondary laptop is 8GB of RAM and it's fine.

As devs and power users we'll always have an edge case for higher RAM usage, but the average consumer is going to be perfectly fine with 8GB of RAM.

All of these comments about how 8GB of RAM is going to make it "unusable" or a "waste of components" are absurd.
I was a long-time iPad fan for more than a decade, currently using 5 year old iPad Pro 10.5 which works flawlessly but its battery is quite degraded already.

With these new iPads introduced I no longer have a viable upgrade path: iPad pro is a no-go for me because of OLED screen (which I strongly oppose, PWM, irregular subpixels, etc.) and newly introduced iPad Air doesn't have 120Hz display (or ProMotion in Apple terms). So, there are no new iPads with LCD display and ProMotion.

What a sad state both Apple hardware and Apple software are in.
> Worst case scenario is when by improving the problem definition a simple solution appears that doesn't require a complex design. The author having invested a lot of time in a complex design (that historically and many committees still look for to promote off of) will push back against anything that is simple. The difficult trick is helping the engineers to improve their problem definition early in the writing process.

The worst case is really when even more time has been spent coding, testing, releasing, and integrating the overly complex design, and then it's extra work on top to get rid of it.

> Anywhere else I would have been grabbed after lunch and would have worked on defining the problem for a few hours with the team at the whiteboard.

I do that at Google regularly, often in parallel with writing the doc. Nothing beats talking with an experienced engineer directly.
Saying tsmc is a hero ignores the thousands of suppliers that improved everything required for tsmc to operate. Tsmc is the biggest, so they get the most experience on all the new toys the world’s engineers and scientists are building.
That's because the previous iPad Pros came with M2, not M3. They are comparing the performance with the previous generation of the same product.
From what I can tell, the 2020 iPad has perfectly fine latency while drawing, and Apple hasn't been advertising lower latencies for each generation; I think they pretty much got the latency thing nailed down. Surely you could make something with the peak performance of an A12Z use less power on average than an M4?

As for the environmental impact, whether I buy or don't buy this iPad (I won't, don't worry, my 2020 one still works), millions of people will. I don't mind people buying powerful machines when the software can make use of the performance, but for iPad OS..?
These are very obscure, or perhaps I mean to say niche laptop manufacturers. We need this standard for all of them, HP, Lenovo, Acer etc.
They are talking about iPad Pro as the primary example of M4 devices. But iPads don't really seem to be limited by performance. Nobody I know compiles Chrome or does 3D renders on an iPad.
I think you have it backwards. Snow Crash was published in 1992. The article references things Ballard said in the 70's and 80's
I love how condescending this headline is, lol.
Radia Is Building Biggest Plane to Grow Wind Power
The art of the pivot, part 1
MACM: Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Mathematical Problems
currently toping the MATH benchmark
https://paperswithcode.com/sota/math-word-problem-solving-on...
I think you are thinking of "Locke" and "Demosthenes" in Ender’s Game.
I can't tell whether this is serious or not. Surely adding independently configurable memory/storage combinations won't confuse the user, any more than having configurable storage options don't make the user confused about what iphone to get?
From https://512pixels.net/2013/07/power-mac-g4/: the ad was based on the fact that Apple was forbidden to export the G4 to many countries due to its “supercomputer” classification by the US government.
They offer a tunnel when connections cannot be established. But beyond that someone has to host it. Why not RPi foundation? I have no reason not to trust them, especially when they make the device itself.
I think the person you are responding to meant friction instead of fiction?

The main problem IMO is that EU is still not really a single market and so a lot of the business models don't transfer as expected(an EU fintech entering DACH from like France or Denmark is like a massive step up in difficulty because the mentality is completely different).
Using low frequency sound will agitate the solute and solvent, speeding up the natural cold brew process.

Using ultrasonic will do it even faster, but since ultrasonic underwater induces cavitation bubbles, it's much more violent.

Ultrasonic has been used for dermal infusion quite successfully, but it is....painful, as bubbles are exploding against your skin.

I would presume the same to be for the sonic coffee. Agitation speeds up the process, until cavitation occurs, where it becomes more violent
To be fair, the single best thing you can do from a budget perspective is get better pay.

But a big portion of house price appreciation can be tied to single earner households moving to two earners, so eventually "work harder" becomes "pay more".
Kinda wild to me that people who frequent a website that bills itself as a site for news for "hackers" show such a nil-level of ability to comprehend anything themselves.
Here are some authors to try out instead, biased towards Science Fiction -

Greg Bear - Amazing science fiction author who builds incredible far future worlds. He is asking questions like "what will humanity be like 10k years in the future".

Charles Stross - First off, wonderful characters. His Laundry Files series is like "what is a 1990s geek, complete with a Palm Pilot, worked for a secret government agency that handles occult issues" but over time it gets deeper and the characters get really fleshed out. It is also awesome because you get to see technology move with the time, since the books take place concurrent with our technological progress, so technology like PDAs make way for smart phones.

Elizabeth Bear - Just all around great characters.

Greg Egan - Science Fiction but deeply rooted in real science and math, his homepage https://www.gregegan.net often dives deeper into the math behind his books and includes citations for further reading! Many of his books lack the "science fiction gadgetry" feel (although some have it) if you are trying to avoid that.

Cory Doctorow - He used to be huge in the open source community (not sure, maybe he still is?) his books all explore interesting social issues through the lens of technology driven change.

FWIW many people do not like Brandon Sanderson and I avoid recommending his books.

IMHO all of the above authors have good characters, Doctorow tends to write younger characters (early to mid 20s), but the rest focus on mature characters. Some, such as Stross, let you watch a character start out young and mature throughout the books (I think his main character has gone from his 20s to his 40s, and it shows in how the character acts and approaches issues).

If you really like math, try Greg Egan. Quite a few of his books have the premise "what would be the impact if this odd bit of, real world, complete with citations, math was just a little bit different?" If that is your thing, then you'll be delighted at what he writes. :-D

e.g.

> In the universe containing Seth’s world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a “dark cone” to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate to face north-east is every bit as impossible as accelerating to the speed of light.

Fun mind bending stuff. :-D
Yes, People Still Buy Books: How a viral post got some key statistics wrong
"that inmates can earn good conduct time that is calculated into their projected release date. Qualified inmates are currently eligible for up to 54 days of GCT time for each year of the sentence imposed by the court. "

So an inmate benefits from their good conduct time.

The sentence reduction is nothing to do with who she is.
Sweetgreen Is Introducing Steak. What About Its Climate Goals?
> Keep in mind, commercial office space construction is already more expensive (by almost an order of magnitude per sq ft) than residential

And yet, results in a shitty experience that residential users just won't accept...

(And yeah, it's shitty for commercial users too.)

There's something very wrong with the entire thing.
And yet it’s worth it for deep learning. I’d like to see a benchmark training Resnet on an iPad.
I use the 420MB mpnet model. They finally have a T5 that gains a point of performance but is almost 10GB. The SBERT folks already think most people would be happier with a model smaller than mpnet but faster.

I have tried fine-tuning other BERTs and not had one that was really worth using. One of these days I want to train a T5 to do something kinda generative like putting Mastodon tags on articles.
It’s not an unusual order, hot coffee is sold millions of times per day, and steaming comes with many coffee drinks, it’s par for the course with espresso drinks. Roasting a salad is weird, hot coffee is not, so your example is straw man. The “cold” in cold brew is not referring to serving temperature, that’s your own misunderstanding, so I find the suggestion that hot cold brew is weird to be pretty funny. As has been said many times in this thread, nobody balks at the idea of cold hot brew, nor do they charge extra.
Reciprocals in Rust: baseline implementations should be predictable. (2021)
Can’t beat the thermodynamics of exciton recombination.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b10823
I think social media, TikTok style short videos etc. are training young people to have very short attention spans. If it doesn't continually provide a Döpamine hit they quit.
Reading to kids every night early on helps. Not being pressured to read stupid crap in school helps. "You can get a library card once you learn to read" helped. Piles of books lying around helps. Older brothers reading a lot helps, especially for reading recommendations.

(Father of 3, youngest is 14 now. after a while, the biggest problem is keeping them in books they haven't read)
the covid-era money printing is one of the biggest causes of today's inflation (but granted there are a few more). This is like high-school level econ here.
I have a MacBook M2 and a PC with a 4090 ("just" one of them) - the VRAM barrier is usually what gets me with the 4090 when I try to run local LLMs (not train them). For a lot of things, my MacBook is fast enough, and with more RAM, I can run bigger models easily. And, it's portable and sips battery.

The marketing hype is overblown, but for many (most? almost all?) people, the MacBook is a much more useful choice.
Your requirements seem exceedingly demanding. What use are you making of the iPad that is not fulfilled by their current line?
All of the tech specs comparisons were extremely odd. Many things got compared to the M1, despite the most recent iPad having the M2. Heck, one of the comparisons was to the A11 chip that was introduced nearly 7 years ago.

I generally like Apple products, but I cannot stand the way they present them. They always hide how it compares against the directly previous product.
interesting theory, we'll see what happens!
Throughout grade school, I had several different environments. Most of them were unsupervised and not regimented. Before class, class, after school, home, out of the house, exploring away from the house, time with friends.

My kids had class and home and sometimes activities. None were unsupervised or non-regimented.

Coming home from exploring and popping open a book is nice. Opening a book and hoping it provides some escape from the 160th hour in a box with adults is desperation.
Indeed it does. I've used it in multiple projects and it always worked like a charm. I love how the hooks make it so customisable!
Translated from one of the newest comments under the video:

"Thank you for the courage of the engineers and responsible authority not to give up despite the (failed) first attempt and to dare a second improved attempt."

In addition to the technical performance, there is an equally remarkable social performance.
Note that such a 2D parameter space gives often the wrong intuition when thinking about applying gradient descent on high-dimensional parameter space.

Also, mini-batch stochastic gradient descent behaves more stochastic than just gradient descent.
TIL about creating diagrams in GitHub's comments
I remember when I ran Slackware on 1MB system...
TikTok, ByteDance sue to block US law seeking sale or ban of app
oh no, we're all going to die
"This thing is incredible," Jobs said. "It's the first supercomputer on a chip.... We think it's going to set the industry on fire."

"The G4 chip is nearly three times faster than the fastest Pentium III"

- Steve Jobs (1999) [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/1999/08/lavish-debut-for-apples-g4/
I like Roam Research too! However, it's not a tool for complex discussions.
it's so weird to read about them firing long-time productive employees in one article, then read about them giving out basic income in another.
Yes certainly, now that people have realized they can work from home, the corporate jig is up. Time to convert those offices into more residential buildings!
Court Filing on TikTok Ban
This. And battery chemistries are advancing rapidly to utilize more readily available minerals. For cars, yes, you need advanced stuff that is small and powerful. But for home and grid use, batteries can afford to be big and heavy.
I've had the original iPad Pro with 64gb since it first released and have somehow never run out of storage. Maybe my problem is that I don't download games. I'd suggest using a USB drive for downloaded media though if you're planning to travel. All of the media apps I use (Netflix, YouTube, Crunchyroll, etc.) support them. That's worked well for me and is one reason I was comfortable buying the 64gb model.
Different form factors and different use cases. They don't want to make a sub-par laptop out of an industry-leading tablet.
Great, until it's not. You have no escape in case of an emergency. The room probably wasn't technically a bedroom.
Scientists synthesize diamond under moderate conditions with liquid metal
Is it strong enough to have all types of vehicles driving over it? Or are heavy machinery and semi trucks told to exit?
> What a sad state both Apple hardware

That seems a tad dramatic. Why don’t you buy a (now) previous gen iPad Pro? That’s LCD (mini-LED if you get the 12.9”), ProMotion, still absurdly thin and powerful (especially for anything you can actually do with an iPad), and likely soon discounted to clear stock.
the desire to program one's toaster is the most HN thing I've seen all day XD
Exactly. If anyone is curious, look up the term Nuclear Sponge.
Isn't this the "Pro" model?
This is correct, but doesn't really change the discussion at all does it?
Relevant article with way more details, also highlights that problem in other developed countries

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-05/global-ho...
mathematicians and physicists who use them for "pen and paper" calculations
I agree with you. Age appropriate usually have terribly boring stories.

To be fair, the same is true for tv shows and movies, I can't stand any "per child" tv show, we moved immediately to disney classics and then onto Miraculous Ladybug (mine are 3 and 5 years old).

As for books, we have a very fun series of "choose your own adventure" books that really hooked them, they love making their choices
What are such compromises? I may buy an M3 mbp, so would like to hear more
What, exactly, was the substance of their complaint(s), if any? Was it just that you made them do their job in a way different from how they are used to?
The 3D Design Journey Changing an Industry
Also they wobble when places on a table, why cant they make it thicker, give more battery.

Like this is crazy that the pencil is thicker.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2024/05/apple-unveils-...
Ruby Science by Thoughtbot
The medieval city-building game that sold a million copies in a single day
I got so sick of having to explain what smoke tests were that I just don't use the term anymore.

In software, they tend to happen at deploy time, whether to an internal environment or production. I just call them "deploy tests" now.
> Yet I can’t help but be worried that the kinds of books that changed my life between ages 8 and 12 are falling by the wayside. Is there room for the thoughtful, serious, beautiful young-person’s novel in 2024? Can you publish Bridge to Terabithia in the age of Captain Underpants?

...Uh, come the 90s, Bridge to Terabithia was a required reading book that I don't think anyone my age cared about. The popular series I remember were, in no particular order: Animorphs, Goosebumps, Nancy Drew, Harry Potter, and Redwall.

I think it's much simpler, adults don't know what kids are interested in. For example, just before that age I was interested in animals and the solar system. Read anything I could find on them, and had no interest in anything being pushed by school or parents. At age 9, I just happened to see Animorphs #11 The Forgotten in the impulse-buy section of our local drugstore and begged my parents for it - for anyone unaware, the Animorphs covers showed kids turning into animals, which was how it drew my attention. That set me onto sci-fi in general, then fantasy - and I've kept reading since.
Discussion [0] (81 points, 52 days ago, 134 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690182
This had me cackle :D
The MW measurement for batteries is an important metric. The maximum power draw is important. If you only report one measurement it should likely be storage capacity (energy), but power is a close second.
Same here, my M1 Air still looks and feels like a brand new computer. Like, I still think of it as "my new MacBook". It's my main machine for dev work and some hobby photography and I'm just so happy with it.
Yes, the additional $600 they make off of users who just want extra RAM is just an unfortunate side effect of the unavoidable process of not being Dell. Couldn't be any other reason.
This is true, except we've allowed homeowners to control the supply.

Imagine used car dealers lobbied to make new cars impossible to build/sell. Of course their prices would go up! Homeowners happily lobby and vote for policies that make it difficult to build new supply, to protect their own investments. We need to break that loop and allow the market to actually build supply and rein in prices.
It hasn't been a button in quite some time - their last implementation is a fixed button that doesn't move, the same way the trackpad on Macs doesn't have any switches.
Thats cool, but literally last millennium.

And again, the guy has been dead for the better part of this millennium.

What have they shown of any product currently on the market, especially when backed with any concrete claim, that has been proven untrue-

EDIT: After reading your article and this one: https://lowendmac.com/2006/twice-as-fast-did-apple-lie-or-ju... it looks like it was true in floating point workloads.
I have a MacBook from work so I do compare them. It’s a worse user experience. No touchscreen, screen is lower and further from my eyes. It’s physically less pleasant to use. There are also some use-cases I can’t even do with the MacBook form factor - eg. on planes, I mount the iPad on the seat in front of me so I watch movies at eye level. Sometimes I hold the iPad in my hands when in pure reading consumption mode.
> some of their opinion pieces are vocally anti-Israel

All, not some. I've been reading them regularly for a few months and have never seen anything that isn't Anti Zionist, let alone pro Israel, and this was way before the current war - I'm sure its much worse now.
> What’s the price difference between 8 and 16? Like $3 in wholesale prices.

Your estimates are not even close. You can't honestly think that LPDDR5 at leading edge speeds is only $3 per 64 Gb (aka 8GB), right?

Your estimate is off my an order of magnitude. The memory Apple is using is closer to $40 for that increment, not $3.

And yes, they include a markup, because nobody is integrating hardware parts and selling them at cost. But if you think the fastest LPDDR5 around only costs $3 for 8GB, that's completely out of touch with reality.